DEPARTMENT: Finance
DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR: Troy Elliott
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT:
Animal Transport Vans
SUMMARY:
This ordinance authorizes a contract with Grande Truck Center to provide the Animal Care Services Department with two replacement animal transport vans for a total cost of $133,416.00. Funding for this purchase is available from the FY 2020 Equipment Renewal and Replacement Fund.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Submitted for City Council consideration and action is the attached bid tabulation from Grande Truck Center to provide two animal transport vans for a total cost of $133,416.00. One van will primarily transport animals between the main Animal Care Services campus and after-hours animal hospitals, while the other van will be used primarily to transport animals to partner facilities for adoption. A secondary use for both vans is to retrieve animals when called upon to provide disaster response relief to other partnering facilities.
ISSUE:
This contract will provide two specialty vans that will meet the needs of Animal Care Services Department when transporting rescued animals. Both vans have air-conditioned cargo areas and are easy to sanitize. The first van is equipped with a cargo area that by design secures kennels of varying sizes in place during transit. The second van is equipped with six large kennel compartments that can be partitioned into a total of twelve smaller kennel compartments.
The life expectancy of these vans is 120 months. These vans come with a 36,000-mile or 36-month warranty.
The Small Business Economic Development Advocacy (SBEDA) Ordinance requirements were waived due to the lack of small, minority, and/or women businesses available to provide these goods and services.
The recommended award is to Grande Truck Center, who is also a local business. Therefore, application of the Local Preference Program was not required.
The Veteran-Owned Small Business Preference Program does not apply t...
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